Thank-you Greg! I will look

LeslieTheAlpacaLady — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:31:04 +0000

Thank-you Greg! I will look into the A record and 301 directs This has been a nightmare week so I appreciate the help.

Leslie

Hello. If you pointed your

Greg K — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:39:38 +0000

Hello.

If you pointed your domain to go to Google now instead of iPower, then you are going to have to work with Google to handle this. A lot of hosts are not going to be that helpful when you are leaving them, so if you are completely leaving iPower, I would image they will not care too much about the trouble you are having.

The problem with the difference between www.atozalpacas.com and just atozalpacas.com is that you cannot put a cname on the root of the domain. You can only do an A record that points to an IP. I would try changing the A record to 209.85.145.121 (the IP for the google server your cname points to) I'm not sure if google will handle receiving that, but worth a try.

Then also, for all the pages that used to exist, I would see if Google has something to let you set up 301 redirects from the old url to a new url. This makes is so people following the links (and also the bots for search engines) be able to find the new information. For people this will reduce the risk of them just giving up. For search bots, it lets them know where the old page went so the new location gets all the link rep from the old page. Otherwise, they track it that page is gone, and then have to map out the new url as a "new page", starting over in it's ranking information on it.

Good luck on this!

-Greg